How we verify listings

Last updated November 5, 2026

A tool page on AIToolMaps says “Verified” only when its facts were read from the tool's own website and each one can be traced to the page it came from. This is how that happens.

1. Where tools come from

We look for new tools only in first-hand places, where the people who make them announce them:

  • “Show HN” and “Launch HN” posts on Hacker News.
  • Fast-growing AI projects on GitHub.
  • Launches on Product Hunt, read through its official API. Those listings link back to the launch.
  • Tools members submit, which go through exactly the same checks.

We never copy listings from other AI directories.

2. Reading the official site

Our crawler, AIToolMapsBot, reads the tool's home page and, where they exist, its pricing, features, docs and about pages. It obeys robots.txt and waits five seconds between requests to a site. It also saves the site's icon and a screenshot of the home page.

3. Facts first, each with its source

An AI model reads those pages and pulls out facts: price tiers, the free plan, the free trial, platforms, API access and license. Each fact must quote where it appears on the site. Facts are stored one by one with the page they came from and the date they were checked, and tool pages show them in a table with those links.

  • Only prices shown in US dollars are stored as the tool's price. Prices shown in another currency are kept as written in the facts table.
  • A new tool must have a price we could find and check on its own site before it is listed.

4. Writing, then checking every sentence

The description, features, strengths and limits are written from the official pages only; the model is told to leave out anything the pages don't say. A separate check then reads the draft sentence by sentence against the site's text and removes any sentence it cannot back up. Drafts that copy too much of the site's own wording are rejected.

5. What a tool has to pass

  1. The site loads and is a real product, not a parked domain or a “coming soon” page.
  2. It is an AI product, and it has an English-language site.
  3. It is not in a category we don't list: adult content, gambling, crypto tokens and airdrops, “undress” or deepfake apps, malware, or look-alike sites posing as a known product.
  4. Its listing scores at least 70 out of 100 for completeness, site quality and how much attention the launch got.

Nobody approves listings by hand, and nobody can pay to be listed or ranked. A tool that fails is not listed, and the reason is recorded.

6. Rechecked every week

Every listed tool's site is read again each week. Changed prices or features update the listing and its “Verified” date. A site that fails three checks in a row is taken off the directory.

What we can't check

  • Some large sites block crawlers or only render in a browser. Their listings stay up from earlier data but are not marked Verified until we can read them again.
  • Some sites show prices by visitor location, so the price you see may differ. The facts table always links to the page so you can check it yourself.
  • We don't test the tools ourselves. Reviews on a tool page come from members, not from us.

Spotted a mistake?

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